Pink Flamingoes! I watched that movie in 1998 when I was first coming out of my shell (I would have been 26 years old). I had just made some gay friends and one of them forced me to watch it. The whole time I was thinking “WTF am I watching here?!?”
Just last week my husband and I watched it again. The memories that it brought back…
Trevor and Matt hide secret lives and desires while staring down high school, the stupid jerks around them, and the epidemic of AIDS in the 80s. The boys face intolerance to create acceptance, find community, and love in this YA series.
Workshop'd at the Oxford creative writing summer program, writer and artist Tim Fish (co-creator of LIEBESTRASSE, nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic and a Tripwire Award for Best Graphic Novel) delivers a look back to offer some hope.
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